Nankang Sportnex AS-3: The Ultimate All-Season Tire for Passenger Cars
Exceptional Wet Grip and Handling
Discover the Nankang Sportnex AS-3, a cutting-edge tire designed to enhance your driving experience. With its advanced tread compound, expertly blended with nanomaterials, this tire delivers superior wet grip and handling performance, ensuring safety and confidence in all weather conditions.
Enhanced Comfort and Noise Reduction
The Sportnex AS-3 is engineered with acoustic software simulations to optimize sound pressure distribution, effectively minimizing unwanted noise and enhancing ride comfort. This innovative approach ensures a quieter and more enjoyable journey every time you hit the road.
Efficient Water Evacuation
Featuring a unique deflection design in the circumferential grooves, the Nankang Sportnex AS-3 efficiently channels water away from the tire surface, reducing the risk of hydroplaning. This design also helps to decrease noise caused by air friction along the groove walls, contributing to a smoother and quieter ride.
Durable and Stable Design
The beveled design on the tread shoulder's lateral grooves not only reduces noise but also enhances block stiffness. This prevents tread deformation over the tire's lifespan, ensuring consistent performance and longevity. Choose the Nankang Sportnex AS-3 for an exceptional all-season driving experience, combining safety, comfort, and durability for your passenger car.
New generation of tread compound perfectly matched up with nanomaterials can upgrade wet grip and handling performance.
Sound pressure distribution for AS-3 EV was simulated and calculated with acoustics software to suppress annoying noise and enhance driving comfort.
Diversion design in circumferential grooves can drive up water in circumferential grooves promptly and effectively, and also help to reduce the noise caused by airflow friction with groove wall.
Bevel design on lateral grooves of tread shoulder can reduce noise and increase block stiffness for prevent tread pattern deformation in later tire life.
The Tire Labeling Ordinance specifies the information requirements on fuel efficiency, wet grip and external rolling noise from tires. In addition, reference is made to the winter properties of the product.
The EU 1222/2009 regulation that has been in force since November 1st, 2012 has been revised and will be replaced by regulation EU 2020/740 from May 1st, 2021; From this point on, new requirements apply. The rating classes for fuel efficiency, wet grip and exterior noise have been changed and the layout of the EU label has been adjusted. The manufacturer's product data sheets stored in the EU database can be downloaded via a QR code integrated into the label. Information on snow grip and ice grip is also newly included for tires that meet these criteria.
The following tires are exempt from the regulation: - tires that are designed exclusively for installation on vehicles that were first registered before October 1, 1990 - retreaded tires (until a corresponding extension of EU VO 2020/740 has taken place) - professional off - Road tires - Racing tires - Tires with additional devices to improve traction, eg studded tires - T-type emergency tires - Tires with a permissible speed below 80 km/h - Tires for rims with a nominal diameter ≤ 254 mm or ≥ 635 mm
The criteria and evaluation classes at a glance
fuel efficiency
The fuel consumption depends on the rolling resistance of the tyres, the vehicle itself, the driving conditions and the driving style of the driver. The measured rolling resistance (rolling resistance coefficient) of the tire is divided into classes A (highest efficiency) to E (lowest efficiency).
If a vehicle is completely equipped with class A tires, a consumption reduction of up to 7.5%* is possible compared to class E tyres. In the case of commercial vehicles, it can even be higher. (Source: European Commission Impact Assessment * when measured according to the test methods set out in Regulation (EU) 2020/740)
Please note: Fuel consumption depends to a large extent on your own driving style and can be significantly reduced by driving in an environmentally friendly manner. Tire pressure should be checked regularly to improve fuel efficiency.
wet grip
Wet grip is divided into classes A (shortest braking distance) - E (longest braking distance).
If a car is equipped with class A tires, compared to class E tires, a braking distance of up to 18 m can be reduced when braking from 80 km/h (on a road surface with average grip).* *Source: wdk Economic Association of the German Rubber Industry eV
Please note: Traffic safety depends to a large extent on your own driving style. The stopping distances must always be observed. Tire pressure should be checked regularly to improve wet grip.
External rolling noise
The noise emitted by a tire affects the overall volume of the vehicle and affects not only your own driving comfort, but also the noise pollution of the environment. In the EU tire label, the external rolling noise is divided into 3 classes from A (lowest rolling noise) - C (highest rolling noise), measured in decibels (dB) and compared with the European noise emission limit values for external tire rolling noise.
A The pictogram with the classification "A" indicates that the tire's external rolling noise is more than 3 dB below the EU limit value in force until 2016. B The "B" classification means that the tyre's external rolling noise is up to 3 dB below or equal to the EU limit value in force until 2016. C The classification "C" indicates that the specified limit value is exceeded.
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